Constance McLaughlin Green won the
1963 Pulitzer Prize in history for her Washington, Village
and Capital, 1800-1878. Among her other studies in social,
economic, and technological history are The United States Army
in World War II: The Technological Services; Eli Whitney and the
Rise of American Technology; American Cities in the Growth of
the Nation; The Rise of Urban America; and The Secret City,
a History of Race Relations in the Nation's Capital. She has
served as Chief Historian, Ordnance, in the U.S. Army Historical
Division; as historian for the Research and Development Board,
Office of the Secretary of Defense; and as head of the Washington
History Project administered by The American University. Earlier
she taught at Mount Holyoke College and Smith College and was
Commonwealth Fund Lecturer at University College, University of
London. Mrs. Green is a graduate of Smith and received an M.A.
from Mount Holyoke, a Ph.D. from Yale University, and an honorary
Litt.D. from Smith.

Milton Lomask's publications include
Seed Honey: The Guggenheim Story, withchapters
on the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for Promotion of Aeronautics, on
Robert H. Goddard's rocket pioneering, and on jet propulsion centers
at California Institute of Technology and Princeton. His Andrew
Johnson: President on Trial was a History Book Club selection.
Mr. Lomask teaches writing at Catholic University of America and
formerly taught at New York University. Before World War II he
was a newspaperman on the Des Moines Register, St. Louis Star-Times,
and New York Journal-American. During the war he served
with the Chemical Warfare Service of the U.S. Army. He is a graduate
of the University of Iowa and received his M.A. from Northwestern
University.